Wrexham ’s share of the spoils away at the Crabble extended the Dragons unbeaten streak to six games in the National League and continued the revival under manager Dean Keates.

Jordan White bundled home fellow substitute John Rooney’s cross in the 80th minute to cancel out Joe Healy’s opener.

The draw sees Dean Keates’s side stay in 10th place and remain only seven points outside the top five, but importantly keep a 16-point gap over the relegation zone.

Here Post sport writer Rob Griffiths hears from the fans following a battling draw in Kent.

John Child

Dover away was always going to be a difficult game, perhaps the first real test of the Dean Keates reign so far, but it was one Wrexham passed with flying colours.

Having watched the majority of Wrexham’s away games, this was in my opinion the best performance of the season.

Dover never looked like a free scoring team chasing a play-off place as Wrexham executed their game plan well.

Both Martin Riley and Curtis Tilt were immense at the back under a constant aerial bombardment and limited the dangerous Ricky Miller to feeding off scraps.

Mention must also once again be given to the calming influence Russell Penn brought to the midfield, winning tackles and guiding his team mates through the game. Wrexham really do miss him when he is not in the side.

The introduction of John Rooney, not for the first time in recent weeks, proved to be a game changer, as a moment of real quality from him, created the equaliser, highlighting his growing importance to the team, making resolving his contractual wrangle a priority.

Wrexham now have an opportunity to build on their recent revival with another home game next Saturday, so lets get behind the boys and hope for three points in front of a passionate 4,000 plus crowd.

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Tony Williams

Another good point at one of the promotion contenders and, over the last few seasons, not a good ground for us.

I couldn’t make it on Saturday but did manage to listen live on Radio Wales. Andy Legg was complimentary about everything except a couple of dead ball situations where we allowed free headers.

The positives, it seems, were that we were unlucky to concede in the way we did after Chris Dunn making a good save and the fact that we showed a lot of spirit in battling back to equalise.

John Rooney was again instrumental in our goal, picking up the ball outside the box on the left-hand side and centring with the outside of his foot for Jordan White to bundle it over the line.

The Rooney situation is certainly a talking point at the moment. I have every confidence in Dean Keates to get it right for the club.

Yes, at this moment in time, it looks a no brainer. We have an attacking, goal scoring midfielder who wants to stay, but if he is going to break our wage structure (because of our previous manager’s incompetence) then move him on.

Anyway onto next Saturday. We owe Aldershot one. Not for beating us, but for not turning up ourselves on the day. Easiest win they will have all season.

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Shaun Holden

Unbeaten in six games, into the top 10, and taking a point away at a high-flying side from our longest journey of the season – Dean Keates hasn’t half turned things around at Wrexham.

Our record against Dover is not good, in fact, it’s pretty woeful. In our five previous matches, we’ve only managed to pick up two points, but Saturday’s draw is proof of the ongoing development of this side under Keates.

Finding ourselves 1-0 down to a side who have scored nearly double the amount of goals Wrexham have managed this season could have spelt the end of the match, and earlier in the campaign it might well have.

But Keates is planting the characteristics he had as a player into his management style and it’s paying dividends for Wrexham. There is a togetherness to this side now, a never-say-die attitude and when things go against us, we get back at the opposition straight away to rectify the wrongs.

The Dover match was part one of a tough double header and we’ve come away with a positive point. We now have to carry our home form into next Saturday’s game against Aldershot, who like us, are well in-form and are just one place outside the play-offs after their draw against Barrow.

Aldershot have picked up only four victories on the road this season and with the way we are playing and confidence sky-high in both the team and the fanbase, there is no reason we can’t go out on the Racecourse pitch and pick up all three points.